Chapter 179 Victory (2 in 1)

What does hypoxia feel like?

I believe that most people will think of extremely painful symptoms such as drowning and asthma when they see this question.

But in fact, the hypoxia caused by the thin oxygen in the outside world is a very "special" feeling.

For example, when a person is in a thin air environment at an altitude of 10,000 meters, the first thing he feels is warmth and dizziness, followed by an inexplicable sense of excitement, and at the same time he becomes extremely confident and has no pain at all.

Most pilots have experienced this feeling personally. Similarly, smokers will also have this feeling, but the symptoms are much milder than the former.

Because a large amount of smoke particles flow into the lungs when smoking, the body's oxygen intake is reduced, thus causing a slight brain hypoxia.

This dizzy and floating feeling is also called smoke dizziness.

The funny thing is that many people who have just started smoking even find this feeling very comfortable, but they don't know that this is actually the body sending you a warning to stop this behavior that will cause damage to the body immediately.

At this moment, Willy's hypoxia is much more serious than the above.

"Am I going to die?"

Looking at the flames spinning in front of him, Willy murmured.

"No! I won't die! I have the protection of the Ring of Ptekt! I am invincible!"

A sudden sense of excitement surged in Willy's heart. Willy was so happy for the first time in his life.

He struggled to get up from the ground, stood in the center of the flames and laughed at the endless flames around him.

His vision was blurring. The flames rising up to the sky around him had turned into an orange-red wall of light in Willy's vision. The flames that kept licking the transparent shield turned into a group of hideous flame beasts.

Willy turned a blind eye to the cracks that kept expanding on the transparent shield and the Ring of Ptekt. He raised his wand and laughed wildly, constantly firing spells at those beasts.

A large number of spells composed of a barrage dispersed large areas of flames. Although more flames would soon fill the previous gaps, Willy was still very excited. In his eyes, those "horrible flame beasts" had turned into nothingness under his attack.

The little bat on Willy's shoulder scratched Willy's cheek desperately, trying to wake up its crazy master, but it was useless. The hallucinations caused by brain hypoxia have completely made Willy lose his mind.

Through magic perception, Mike has a panoramic view of what happened in the fire tornado.

To be honest, the power of this fire tornado has exceeded Mike's expectations.

Once a fire tornado more than ten meters high is generated, it will instantly sweep away the oxygen in the center of the fire tornado, and the enemies in the center will die in just a few minutes due to brain hypoxia in this almost zero oxygen environment.

Of course, ordinary enemies can't hold on until then. After all, in addition to hypoxia, the temperature in the center of the fire tornado is also terrifyingly high. Ordinary people will be burned to ashes in an instant.

In addition, don't look at Willy's current spirits, and he can even cast spells.

But this is entirely because he drank a lot of magic potions before the game, which led to enhanced physical fitness. Normal people have no ability to move at all in a state of hypoxia.

Thinking of this, Mike was secretly anxious.

Why hasn't the referee announced his victory yet? Why haven't the professors on the sidelines come up to forcefully stop the game?

If this continues, Willy will become a fool even if he doesn't die. If you lack oxygen for too long, it will cause irreversible damage to the brain. Mike doesn't want to lose the bet.

At this moment, outside the court, Snape and a group of professors are staring at the fire tornado rising into the sky on the court.

The scene inside the fire tornado naturally cannot be hidden from them, but they don't know the harm of lack of oxygen. At this moment, they have been deceived by Willy's lively state.

Wizards, especially those who have lived in the wizarding world since childhood, are dismissive of the science of the Muggle world. In their view, magic is everything.

Because of this concept, they even reject anything in the Muggle world, so many wizards lack logical thinking, reverse thinking, and common sense.

So why not eat meat is common in the wizarding world, and there are even many pure-blood wizards who stubbornly believe that the earth is in the shape of a chessboard.

Snape is actually a genius in the wizarding world, at least he has a very high level of logical thinking.

The puzzles he asked in the original plot of the Philosopher's Stone are nightmare-level problems for most wizards, because wizards have not received logical education, so their brains can never turn around.

But for Muggles who have received a complete education since childhood, this kind of puzzle is not difficult, at least Hermione, an excellent student who graduated from elementary school, can solve it.

Unfortunately, even though Snape is already a genius among wizards, he did not realize the seriousness of the situation.

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Looking at the professors in front of him as if nothing had happened, Professor Flitwick frowned.

Mike had discussed this fire tornado spell with him before, so he also learned the concept of hypoxia from Mike, but his colleagues in front of him obviously did not know it.

After hesitating for a long time, Flitwick was still ready to force the game to end. Although doing so might be said to be partial to his own students, it was nothing compared to letting Willy die on the field.

However, some people did not want him to do this.

"Are you trying to favor your own student?"

Snape said coldly, as if he had noticed Flitwick's actions.

"Severus, the game is over, let's end it."

"I don't think so, Filius. Willy is protected by the Ring of Ptect, and Mike can't hurt him in a short time. With Mike's magic, how long can he sustain such a powerful fire tornado?"

Looking at the cheerful Snape in front of him, Flitwick couldn't help but smile bitterly. At this moment, he really had the urge to ignore this matter, but thinking of the possible impact on Mike after Willy's accident, he suppressed this thought.

"Listen to me, Severus. Mike and I have studied this spell before. Its real effect has never been to kill the enemy with high temperature, but to lack of oxygen!" Flitwick explained with his hands and feet dancing, "The burning of fire consumes oxygen, and Willy is now in a state of hypoxia. Lack of oxygen! Do you understand suffocation?"

As soon as these words came out, Snape's smile froze on his face.

He was a half-blood who had lived in the Muggle society since childhood. He knew about oxygen and suffocation. Although he did not learn Muggle knowledge after graduating from elementary school, he did not quite understand the principle that flames would consume oxygen, but this did not affect his understanding of the seriousness of the matter.

"Are you serious, Filius!"

"Of course, there is no time, act quickly!"

Looking at Professor Flitwick's serious expression, Snape no longer hesitated and announced the result of the game directly.

"Mr. Townley, please stop what you are doing. You won this game!"

Because of the loud voice spell, everyone at the scene, including Mike, heard Snape's somewhat anxious voice.

Mike breathed a sigh of relief when he heard it. The magic and mental power consumed to maintain the fire tornado were quite terrifying. Now his magic and mental power were almost exhausted.

He quickly put down his wand and interrupted the magic supply to the fire tornado.

The fire tornado without magic supply became water without source and tree without root. In an instant, it turned into sparks and dissipated in the air.

Willy appeared in front of everyone in the fire tornado. The transparent shield covering his body was now covered with cracks, and it seemed that it would collapse in the next moment. He also looked ferocious at the moment, with saliva and snot all over his face.

The sudden disappearance of the flames obviously made Willy a little uncomfortable. He looked around blankly and breathed in the oxygen-rich air greedily. The air full of burnt smell seemed sweet to him.

Suddenly, his eyes fell on Mike not far away. The memory lost due to lack of oxygen finally began to slowly recover.

Willy raised his wand tremblingly, as if he wanted to continue fighting.

However, Mike did not give him this opportunity. He raised his hand and knocked him unconscious. What he needed now was treatment instead of fighting.

"Well, I don't know why, but Professor Snape announced the result of the competition. Mr. Townley successfully advanced to the finals!" Lockhart in the suspended attic said somewhat awkwardly, "It's a pity for contestant Willy. I hope he's OK."

After Lockhart officially announced the result of the competition, the stands finally boiled over. The little wizards of Ravenclaw and Gryffindor stood up and applauded like crazy. The former was happy for Mike, while the latter was indeed gloating. They were very happy that Slytherin and them were not in the finals.

The Hufflepuff students also followed suit and applauded. They have always been neutral, and now they are simply applauding for Mike out of politeness.

In contrast, the reaction of the Slytherin students was very interesting. They first fell into a strange silence, and then as if they suddenly reacted, they began to spit foul language.

They didn't understand why Snape announced Mike's victory, and they didn't care about Willy's life or death. They only cared about honor.

Willy failed, lost to Mike, a second-year student, and lost the qualification to advance to the finals. This also meant that Slytherin's honor was lost, which they could not accept.

But whether they could accept it or not, the fact was that Mike won the victory.

The pale blue giant eagle above the Ravenclaw stand screamed to the sky and made a sharp eagle cry. Then the giant eagle flapped its wings and rushed towards the Slytherin stand opposite. The

huge wings covered the sky, and the Slytherin students in the stands couldn't help but close their eyes when they saw the giant eagle rushing towards them.

However, the giant eagle's target was not them.

A pair of giant claws grabbed the giant snake above the Slytherin stand. The sharp claws on the giant claws easily broke through the scales of the giant snake and drilled into the flesh.

"Hiss!"

The giant snake screamed in pain, turned its head and bit the giant eagle. However, a fierce light flashed in the giant eagle's eyes, and the eagle's beak flashing with cold light pecked down like lightning, accurately hitting the giant snake's eyes.

The long eagle beak pierced the snake's brain from its eye, and large streams of light mist gushed out from the wound. In an instant, the snake disappeared from people's sight.

After absorbing the light mist, the eagle's entire body swelled up, and it was now confronting the giant badger, which had also swelled up a lot.

"Today's game is finally over. The winners are Mike from Ravenclaw and Cedric from Hufflepuff!" Lockhart announced excitedly, "Want to know who is stronger between the two of them? Please look forward to the final of the duel competition next week! By the way, Bruno and Willy will also compete for the third place in the final next week."

Amid the cheers like a tsunami, Mike's eyes were firm, and he walked up to the platform step by step.

A throne shining with golden light was waiting for him on the platform.

"I knew you could do it."

Cedric, who was sitting on another throne, saw Mike coming towards him, and he also stood up and applauded.

"Of course, we agreed to fight again, didn't we?"

After saying that, both of them laughed. They didn't know each other until they fought. In the first year, Mike and Cedric had some conflicts because of the matter of Dolphin, but now, they have become good friends.

Cedric opened his arms and walked up to Mike and gave him a hug.

"Congratulations!"

The scene of the two hugging was projected to all the audience present through the magic projection on the scene. Seeing that the relationship between the two was so harmonious, all the professors present also smiled.

If the relationship between Mike and Cedric was tense, it would inevitably cause confrontation between Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff, which would have a great negative impact on the order of Hogwarts.

The hatred and confrontation between the colleges is no joke, just look at Gryffindor and Slytherin.

These two colleges have been fighting each other for so many years. Not only do their students often fight and violate school rules in school, but they also fight each other when they meet outside the school.

In addition, this kind of hatred between the two houses even continued after graduation. Many people who graduated from Gryffindor and Slytherin disliked each other for the rest of their lives and would look for opportunities to trip each other up whenever they had the chance.

Now, the harmonious relationship between Cedric and Mike means that the relationship between Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff will not become tense because of the dueling tournament, but may even get better because of it. This is what the professors want to see.

Mike and Cedric on the other side of the podium obviously didn't think so much. The two walked down the podium together. Cedric smiled and asked,

"I feel a little hungry after the fight. Do you want to go to the kitchen with me to eat something later?"

"No." Mike rubbed the raven pendant around his neck and said meaningfully, "I have more important things to deal with."

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I recommend the book "Crown of Ice Roses"

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